Pencil Sketch by Senior Nazi Fritz Todt

Pencil drawing by Senior Nazi Fritz Todt measuring 13 inches x 8 inches. This was acqired by a lifelong resident of Berchtesgaden who met many high level Third reich personalities and their families after the war. The back of the drawing has Fritz Todt's offical stamp. The drawing itself appears to be a landscape with a road going through the middle. There is also a tag stapled to the top left corner which is the location of the drawing and the year 1933, and then possibly an inventory number. Also included is a letter from Todt's wife dated 3 Nov 1993 and a modern copy of a photo of Todt and his family. Fritz Todt (4 September 1891 – 8 February 1942) was a German construction engineer and senior Nazi who rose from the position of Inspector General for German Roadways, in which he directed the construction of the German autobahns (Reichsautobahnen), to become the Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition. From that position, he directed the entire German wartime military economy.Before the beginning of World War II, he initiated what Hitler called Organisation Todt, a military-engineering company that supplied industry with forced labour and administered construction of the Nazi concentration camps in the late phase of Nazi Germany.Todt died in an aircraft crash in 1942.